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Bruno Arpino

Associate Professor, University of Florence, Italy • Personal webpage
Individual and population ageing, age structure

Health at older ages: childless adults not always worse off than parents

March 14, 2021January 18, 2021 Nekehia T. Quashie, Bruno Arpino, Radoslaw Antczak and Christine A. Mair
Children, Health, Old age

As children are often the main source of support in later life, childless older adults are presumed to have higher risks of poor health compared to parents. Nekehia T. Quashie, … Read more

Families and households

Is support between parents and adult children reciprocal?

March 14, 2021July 20, 2020 Hans Hämäläinen and Bruno Arpino
Children, Europe, Family, germany, grandchildren, grandmother

Hans Hämäläinen and Bruno Arpino investigate short-term reciprocity of intergenerational support from the viewpoint of adult children. They consider multiple forms of support and examine whether previously received support from … Read more

Individual and population ageing, age structure

Stretched to breaking point? Caregiving grandparents and depression

March 10, 2021July 22, 2019 Bruno Arpino and Madelin Gómez-León
granparents, Health

Bruno Arpino and Madelin Gómez-León examine the effect on depression of combining grandchild care with other care roles among individuals aged 50 to 84 in Europe. Their results show that … Read more

Gender issues

The geography of female-breadwinner and equal-income couples in Europe

March 4, 2021November 28, 2016 Agnese Vitali and Bruno Arpino
Europe, Gender issues, Women, Work

An increasing number of couples today are dependent upon women’s labour income. Along with an increase in dual-earner couples, couples where the woman out-earns her partner are also on the … Read more

Individual and population ageing, age structure

How old do you feel? It depends on whether you have grandchildren

March 3, 2021February 22, 2016 Valeria Bordone and Bruno Arpino
grandchildren, Old age

The idea of a static measure of age is changing (Christensen et al., 2009; Sanderson & Scherbov, 2013). The concept of ageing is not independent of time and place, and … Read more

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